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单词 house cock
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house cock
house cock n. Obsolete the male of the domestic chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus (as distinguished from other male galliform birds).
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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Gallinaceus, a howse cocke.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 25 What shall I say of the House-Cock, which treads any Hen, and then..takes no care to hatch, to feed, or to cherish his own Brood. View more context for this quotation
1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 160 The Rump of a House Cock strip'd of its Feathers, and applied to the Wound, doth powerfully extract the poyson.
1899 P. J. McCall Songs Erinn 110 Dream of happy home and bawn, Till the house cocks, answering each other, Cry out: Mock na Ho-ya slaun!
1912 W. G. Johnson & G. O. Brown Poultry Bk. (new ed.) 1282 Of the other poultry, two house cocks and nineteen hens were valued at 6s. 8d.
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